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by planteen 2404 days ago
Many Linux utilities do things with the kibi terms, using the MiB, GiB, TiB units.

There have been a few lawsuits about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix#Consumer_confusi...

The outcome is that hard drive manufacturers need to explicitly print their definition of a "gigabyte". IMHO, it's not a right or wrong discussion, just a difference.